What Is An Idea Worth?

The most exciting and profitable part of my business is often also the most frustrating — valuing our ideas. After all, clients don’t come to us because they want to be patrons of the arts. They call us up and hire us because they have a problem and they need to find...

The Three “E”s of Successful Public Speaking

How many times have you attended a speech and decided whether the speaker was worth listening to within the first few minutes of their pitch? Often they hadn’t even gotten deep enough into their presentation to present metrics worth judging but you’d already made your...

Your Kids Cannot Tell Time.

Your kids cannot tell time. Did you know that? Really, they can’t tell time. Don’t believe me? Test them sometime. Wait until you’re in a room with an analog clock and a teenager or twenty-something. Tell them they can’t look at their phone and then ask them the time....

Nobody Cares About Your Newsletter. Part II.

Last week we talked about the futility of sending out self-serving newsletters that completely ignore the recipients’ interests and needs (you can read it HERE). Francisco Gonzalez summed it up by quoting his mentor who used to say, “This is clearly a case of...
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